San Patrizio in Irlanda del Nord (rinvenimento ordigni, incidenti e tensione a Belfast e Derry)

Ho ricevuto poco fa questo comunicato dalla mailing list di "Friends of Shane"
La riporto esattamente cone l'ho ricevuta per sapere se qualcuno di voi ne sa di più...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Police blamed Protestant extremists for planting a bomb outside a crowded nightclub near Belfast's major university on St. Patrick's Day.

British army experts safely defused the homemade device, hours after police evacuated the Menagerie Club near Queen's University, which has a predominantly Catholic student body. The alert forced the cancelation of a concert featuring Shane McGowan, former lead singer of the 1980s Irish band The Pogues.

No group claimed responsibility, but police said the choice of target and crude configuration of the bomb -- several pipe bombs bound together -- suggested one of Northern Ireland's outlawed anti-Catholic groups.

The two major gangs, the Ulster Defense Association and Ulster Volunteer Force, are officially observing cease-fires but both groups have members still committing acts of violence, particularly using pipe bombs.

St. Patrick's Day, which was Wednesday, has traditionally been celebrated only by the Irish Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom with a British Protestant majority.

Heavy alcohol consumption mixed with sectarian passions produced several street clashes Wednesday after Catholics attended a St. Patrick's Day parade and outdoor pop concert in downtown Belfast. Police said an officer was wounded in one clash with Catholic vandals near a shopping center, while rival Catholic and Protestant mobs traded salvos of bottles and rocks in west Belfast.

In north Belfast, the most bitterly divided side of the Northern Ireland capital, an unidentified gang bludgeoned a 17-year-old boy, seriously injuring him.

In Londonderry, (sic, ndr) Northern Ireland's second-largest city, Catholic youths leaving nightclubs bombarded police vehicles with bricks, rocks and other objects. The trouble there began, police said, when a fight among Catholic youths inside one club spilled into the street and rapidly escalated. (AP)

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3522434.stm

Sean, grazie x la segnalazione

Boh, non mi sembra che nelle News irlandesi ne abbiano parlato. Oltretutto ho visto anche un trenta secondi di Shane McGowan, ormai perduto nel suo universo personale che cantava su una specie di palchetto.

(prendetemi con le pinze perché più si avvicinano gli esami più mi si fulminano gli ultimi neuroni rimasti )

S.P.Q.I. .....

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Scritto da: Dario 21/03/2004 10.56
S.P.Q.I. .....

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